Word: adrianus
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...trying to correct the situation, Pope Paul VI chose conservative Adrianus Simonis as bishop of Rotterdam, stirring up a furor. Even so, two years later Paul added the more hard-line Gijsen to the hierarchy. With encouragement from the Vatican, the abrasive Gijsen set about creating a church within a church. He boycotted the Dutch church's official catechetical institute and its counseling center for troubled priests and nuns. When the Dutch Council of Churches took what he considered too tolerant a line on abortion and homosexuality, he unilaterally pulled out of it, while The Netherland...
...Rome, in 1966 the Dutch church issued a celebrated "New Catechism," that invited reinterpretation of traditional dogma. In 1970 its national Pastoral Council went so far as to endorse the idea of women priests and an end to the celibacy rule. In response, Pope Paul named hard-line conservatives Adrianus Simonis and Johannes Gijsen to two of the seven Netherlands bishoprics. The liberals exploded in extraordinary public wrath over both choices and there was even talk of schism...
...town council had struck an agreement with a newly created Belgian disposal company named Vebeka. Elias got a seat on the company board and Vebeka got a license to dump wastes in the cavernous old factory; the town would get 55? per ton of the lethal garbage. Vebeka Chief Adrianus Van den Bogert, a Dutch citizen, told the villagers: "There isn't any danger at all, believe me. I have experience in these things...
...Vatican seems determined to use the Roman Catholic Church of The Netherlands as a test case to prove that the progressive wing of the church can be curbed. What is more, it seems to be winning. First there was the appointment of conservative Msgr. Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam. Then came the appointment of a stubborn reactionary, Johannes Gijsen, to the see of Roermond (TIME, July 24). Now the hierarchy of The Netherlands has been forced to cancel a national pastoral council meeting set for October...
...seven Roman Catholic bishops of The Netherlands, who presented such a progressive front at the Second Vatican Council, have suffered another breach in their ranks. A year ago Pope Paul introduced the first new conservative into the Dutch hierarchy by appointing Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam, ignoring the nominations of the diocesan chapter (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971). Now he has named Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, a friend of Simonis and heretofore the rector of an old-age home in a tiny village, to the southern Netherlands diocese of Roermond. As with the Simonis appointment, critics noted, the Pope...